@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt13x0c2x.20,
 ISBN = {9780823251445},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x0c2x.20},
 abstract = {The Apocalypse of St. John has been regarded as the supreme symbol of the decisive cultural shift that occurred with the advent of Christianity: a shift fromnaturetohistory.¹ The problem of the environment—the violation of nature, its unrestrained exploitation by the human race—is judged to be a necessary consequence of the priority that Christianity gave to history, subordinating nature to an eschatological perspective that entailed its final disappearance for the sake of an eagerly awaited spiritual “Kingdom.”We are speaking of a cultural shift because Christianity was preceded by ancient Greece. To the Greeks, the idea},
 author = {Christos Yannaras and George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou},
 booktitle = {Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation},
 pages = {186--192},
 publisher = {Fordham University Press},
 title = {Existential versus Regulative Approaches: The Environmental Issue as an Existential and Not a Canonical Problem},
 year = {2013}
}